Spreading photoparoxysmal EEG response is associated with an abnormal cortical excitability pattern

Brain

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-87

  Siniatchkin, Michael ^a   Groppa, Sergey ^a   Jerosch, Bettina ^a   Muhle, Hiltrud ^a   Kurth, Christoph ^b   Shepherd, Alex J ^c   Siebner, Hartwig ^a   Stephani, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Epilepsy Center   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Motor cortex; Photosensitivity; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 33845874913     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl306     Document Type: Article

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